''Vandenboschia'' is a fern genus in the family

Hymenophyllaceae The Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns and bristle ferns, are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) and about 650 known species of ferns, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, but generally restricted to very damp pla ...

. The genus is accepted in the

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classification of 2016 (PPG I) but not by some other sources.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Vandenboschia'' was erected by

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in 1938. Its status, like other genera in the family Hymenophyllaceae, remains disputed. The

classification of 2016 (PPG I) accepts the genus, saying that there are about 15 species. , the ''Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World'' listed 25 species and one hybrid, whereas ''

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'' subsumed the genus into ''

Trichomanes ''Trichomanes'' is a genus of ferns in the family Hymenophyllaceae, termed bristle ferns. The circumscription of the genus is disputed. All ferns in the genus are filmy ferns, with leaf tissue typically 2 cells thick. This thinness generally nec ...

''.

Species

, the ''Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World'' accepted the following species and hybrids: *'' Vandenboschia amabilis'' (Nakai) K.Iwats. *'' Vandenboschia auriculata'' (Blume) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia birmanica'' (Bedd.) Ching *''

Vandenboschia boschiana ''Vandenboschia boschiana'', synonym ''Trichomanes boschianum'', the Appalachian bristle fern or Appalachian filmy fern, is a small delicate perennial leptosporangiate fern which forms colonies with long, black creeping rhizomes. The evergreen f ...

'' (J.W.Sturm ex Bosch) Ebihara & K.Iwats. *'' Vandenboschia collariata'' (Bosch) Ebihara & K.Iwats. *'' Vandenboschia cyrtotheca'' (Hillebr.) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia cystoseiroides'' (Christ ex Tardieu & C.Chr.) Ching *'' Vandenboschia davallioides'' (Gaudich.) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia fargesii'' (Christ) Ching *'' Vandenboschia gigantea'' (Bory ex Willd.) Pic. Serm. *'' Vandenboschia hokurikuensis'' Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia johnstonensis'' (Bailey) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia kalamocarpa'' (Hayata) Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia lofoushanensis'' Ching *'' Vandenboschia maxima'' (Blume) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia miuraensis'' Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia nipponica'' (Nakai) Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia obtusa'' (Copel.) comb. ined. *'' Vandenboschia oshimensis'' (Christ) Ebihara * ''Vandenboschia'' × ''quelpaertensis'' (Nakai) Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia radicans'' (Sw.) Copel. *'' Vandenboschia rupestris'' (Raddi) Ebihara & K.Iwats. *'' Vandenboschia speciosa'' (Willd.) G.Kunkel *'' Vandenboschia striata'' (D.Don) Ebihara *'' Vandenboschia subclathrata'' K.Iwats. *'' Vandenboschia tubiflora'' F.S.Wagner

References

Hymenophyllales Fern genera {{Polypodiidae-stub